The association between implicit and explicit affective inhibitory control, rumination and depressive symptoms.

ABSTRACT: Inhibitory control underlies one's ability to maintain goal-directed behavior by inhibiting prepotent responses or ignoring irrelevant information. Recent models suggest that impaired inhibition of negative information may contribute to depressive symptoms, and that this association is mediated by rumination. However, the exact nature of this association, particularly in non-clinical samples, is unclear. The current study assessed the relationship between inhibitory control over emotional vs. non-emotional information, rumination and depressive symptoms. A non-clinical sample of 119 participants (mean age: 36.44 ± 11.74) with various levels of depressive symptoms completed three variations of a Go/No-Go task online; two of the task variations required either explicit or implicit processing

SUBMITTER: Shimony O 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8169859 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature